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TED名人演讲稿 未来自我的心理 点课台前言：雅思听力对于很多烤鸭来说都是一道难关，大家都在苦苦思索，怎样的雅思听力。今天，点课台老师给大家整理了TED演讲，附演讲稿与视频，希望可以帮助到正在备考的考生。TED是美国的一家私有非盈利机构，该机构以它组织的TED大会著称，这个会议的宗旨是“用思想的力量来改变世界”。大家在锻炼雅思听力的时候，也可以学习一下里面的主角们的思维模式，论述方法，希望还能对大家的雅思写作有所启迪。 Dan Gilbert：The psychology of your future self 丹?吉伯特: 未来自我的心理 At every stage of our lives we make decisions that will profoundly influence the lives of the people we’re going to become, and then when we become those people, we’re not always thrilled with the decisions we made. So young people pay good money to get tattoos removed that teenagers paid good money to get. Middle-aged people rushed to divorce people who young adults rushed to marry. Older adults work hard to lose what middle-aged adults worked hard to gain. On and on and on. The question is, as a psychologist, that fascinates me is, why do we make decisions that our future selves so often regret? 在我们生命的每个阶段， 我们都会做出一些决定， 这些决定会深刻影响 未来我们自己的生活， 当我们成为未来的自己时， 我们并不总是对过去 做过的决定感到高兴。 所以年轻人花很多钱 洗去当还是青少年时 花了很多钱做上的纹身。 中年人急着跟 年轻时迫不及待想结婚的人离婚。 老年人很努力的挥霍着 作为中年人时不停工作所赚的钱。 如此没完没了。 作为一个心理学家， 让我感兴趣的问题是， 为什么我们会做出 让自己将来常常后悔的决定? Now, I think one of the reasons -- I’ll try to convince you today — is that we have a fundamental misconception about the power of time. Every one of you knows that the rate of change slows over the human lifespan, that your children seem to change by the minute but your parents seem to change by the year. But what is the name of this magical point in life where change suddenly goes from a gallop to a crawl? Is it teenage years? Is it middle age? Is it old age? The answer, it turns out, for most people, is now, wherever now happens to be. What I want to convince you today is that all of us are walking around with an illusion, an illusion that history, our personal history, has just come to an end, that we have just recently become the people that we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives. 我认为其中一个原因—— 而我